In this file photo, Filipino world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, left, trains with coach Freddie Roach for his upcoming May 7 fight against Shane Mosley Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at the resort city of Baguio in northern Philippines. (AP)

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Unless there is a miracle and Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao sign to fight each other, promoter Bob Arum is going to be hard-pressed to continue to give Pacquiao money-making opponents. Ones that sell well on pay-per-view.

Chances are, Pacquiao is going to fight Timothy Bradley again in April, and that really isn’t going to rev up the engines of boxing fans all that much. It would be another decent fight, but probably not a great one. Their first fight in June 2012 reportedly pulled about 900,000 pay-per-view buys, but the feeling here is the rematch would likely do less because even though Pacquiao was ripped off — Bradley winning a controversial split-decision — it’s just not a rematch for which many seem to been clamoring.

Help could be on the way in the name of Mikey Garcia, the ultra-talented super featherweight champion from Oxnard. At 5-foot-7, he can easily move up a couple, perhaps even three more weight classes and still not be considered terribly short. That’s not to mention that Pacquiao, who began as a light flyweight, is only 5-6 1/2.

Garcia, 26, is 33-0 with 28 knockouts and a legitimate top 10 pound-for-pound fighter. Tonight he will defend his title against Juan Carlos Burgos of Mexico at Madison Square Garden in New York City (on HBO). During this promotion, Arum slyly brought up the notion of Garcia moving up far enough to tangle with Pacquiao, currently a small welterweight.

Arum was asked how he sees the future of Garcia unfolding.

“It’s one fight at a time,” he said. “A lot is happening in boxing and it happens really quick. Mikey is one of the few American stars in boxing. We have Mikey and Andre Ward, Floyd Mayweather and Timothy Bradley and there are not many other Americans who qualify as superstars. Mikey is taking on a lot of these non-Americans in really big fights, and where that takes him, I am not sure.

“Does it take him up in weight to 135 or 140, then a fight with Pacquiao?”

Arum continued, but it was kind of like, hold on right there. Is there a fight with Pacquiao in Garcia’s future?

“Mikey will tell you himself,” Arum said. “He was over in Macau when his stablemate, Brandon Rios, fought Pacquiao (in November, selling only 475,000 buys). And he mentioned to some that down the road he would look forward to a fight with Manny Pacquiao. I am a big Mikey Garcia fan and I thought that would be good.”

The problem with this scenario would be how long would it take Garcia to move up high enough to fight Pacquiao. If this is a fight that can be made within the next calendar year, that would work.

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By that time, Garcia would have presumably won another belt or two — he’s already won titles in two weight classes — further cementing his elite standing. And Pacquiao, who just turned 35 last month, would still be young enough. He just has to do his part by not losing any more fights.

Interestingly, if this fight ever did come to fruition, Garcia would have in his camp strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza, who helped Pacquiao with his advance through eight weight classes.

“I feel really good working with Ariza and you could see the results when he worked with Pacquiao,” Garcia said. “He kept moving up in divisions and dominated everyone. If we can do the same thing with me, that only makes me a better fighter.

“We want the best team to help me perform the best. I don’t want to move up in weight class because I am lazy and don’t want to train hard. I will move up when my body is ready to go into that division, and with Alex that will help me.”

Tell you what, though, Garcia better worry about tonight before he thinks of anything else. Burgos is not near the name Garcia is — nor is he as talented — but Burgos has already fought for world titles twice and come up empty each time.

Burgos fought Hozumi Hasegawa for a vacant featherweight world title in November 2010 in Japan and lost a unanimous decision. He challenged Roman Martinez for his super featherweight belt in January 2013 and was crushed when the bout was ruled a split-draw, Martinez retaining the championship.

To say Burgos (30-1-2, 20 KOs) is hungry for a world title is putting it mildly.

“You all know that decision is on my record and I can’t change it,” Burgos said of the draw with Martinez. “The only thing I concentrate on right now is my future fight, and that is against Garcia.

“Nothing else matters to me.”

The world will be watching Victor Ortiz

With everything that has happened in the career of Victor Ortiz, one has to wonder what’s next? In June 2009 at Staples Center, Ortiz found himself embroiled in a vicious fight with Marcos Maidana. Maidana stopped Ortiz in the sixth round, Ortiz seemingly quitting and taking all kinds of heat from fans and reporters.

Ortiz rebounded nicely to take the welterweight title from Andre Berto via unanimous decision in April 2011. Then things really went haywire. Ortiz was knocked out in the fourth round by Mayweather at MGM Grand in Las Vegas after he couldn’t stop apologizing enough for intentionally head-butting Mayweather and busting his lip.

After Ortiz’s last apology — he hugged Mayweather — Ortiz was floored with a 1-2 after the embrace as time was back in.

And in June 2012 at Staples Center, Ortiz was leading Josesito Lopez on the scorecards when Lopez badly broke Ortiz’s jaw in the ninth round, leaving Ortiz unable to answer the bell for the 10th.

Ortiz will be back in the saddle next Thursday when he takes on former champion Luis Collazo at Barclays Center in Brooklyn (on Fox Sports 1). The question is, with all that has happened, is Ortiz’s psyche strong enough to where he can again become champion?

“Well, we’re going to find out a lot about that next week,” Schaefer said. “That’s going to be very, very interesting to see because one thing we all know about Victor Ortiz is that there is always something happening, something exciting. And you just don’t know, and I think that’s what makes Victor Ortiz like must-see TV.

“There is this happening, that happening. And when people say, ‘Well, the guy has no heart,’ you see what happened in the Berto fight where Victor got dropped and came up and he showed the heart of a champion. So you just don’t know. I think it’s the unknown that makes Victor so exciting.”

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Nothing has been announced, but indications are that Pacquiao will take on Bradley in the rematch April 12 at MGM Grand (on HBO pay-per-view). Pacquiao’s promoter, Arum, has told several outlets that he does expect to get the fight done — and very soon. ... We also should soon be hearing that a deal has been reached for heavyweight contenders Chris Arreola and Bermane Stiverne to fight for the heavyweight title vacated by Vitali Klitschko. ... Lamont Peterson (31-2-1, 16 KOs) tonight will defend his super lightweight title against Dierry Jean (25-0, 17 KOs) of Canada in the main event at DC Armory in Peterson’s native Washington D.C. (on Showtime). ... Gennady Golovkin (28-0, 25 KOs) of Kazakhstan next Saturday will defend his middleweight title against Osumanu Adama (22-3, 16 KOs) of Ghana from Monte Carlo, Monaco. Unfortunately, there will be no American TV. HBO tried to work out a deal to do the fight, but it said the venue could not provide what it needed.